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Personal correspondence between Tom and Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham and James Hemming of the Common Wealth Party, chiefly on personal matters, with some mention of Common Wealth business including letter to Kitty on the Beveridge Report. 1 file

Personal correspondence of Tom Wintringham including letter from Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham on her personal problems [1944]; correspondence with Christina Woods (née Roberts); Millie Wintringham; Elizabeth 'Jim' Neale (née Wintringham); Fred Fish; Albert 'Yank' Levy; Leslie 'Lesh' Wintringham; Ferdinand Otto Miksche; Ronald William Gordon Mackay (Kim Mackay); Hugh Williamson; Wintringham's nursemaid 'Nin'; Margaret Wintringham, MP; Frank Ryan, Irish commissar, International Brigade and David Crook. 1 file

Kitty Wintringham's personal correspondence, including with her mother, Charlotte Everett Bowler (née Miller), Henry Wise Miller (Uncle Harry), Rhys Caparn and James Hemming. 1 file

Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham's personal correspondence, chiefly on the birth of her son, Ben including with her mother, Charlotte Everett Bowler (née Miller), Rhys Caparn, Albert 'Yank' Levy, Anne McGregor and other friends and relatives of Kitty and Tom Wintringham. 1 file

Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham's personal correspondence, chiefly 1939-1941, including one letter to her cousin Mr Spratts Post, 1921 and correspondence 1939-1941, including with Henry Wise Miller (Uncle Harry) and her mother, Charlotte Everett Bowler (née Miller) enclosing photographs of herself in Hawaii. 1 file

Papers relating to Tom Wintringham's proposed development of the internal combustion engine including letters patent and specification for patent for 'improvements in driving gear for use with internal combustion engines', 29 Aug 1929 with correspondence with a patent agency; manuscript proposal for an experiment on the combustion engine, with accompanying diagrams; press cuttings 'Heavy-oil aircraft engine' and 'Crude oil engines'; typescript paper 'The hydraulic connecting rod and aero-engine design'; typescript paper of suggestions on high-compression engines; letter to the Automobile Engineer 'A new field of research' on methods of applying hydraulic engineering to the internal combustion engine and correspondence with Research Engines Ltd, Oct 1929. 1 file

Papers relating to the setting up of the Home Guard including letter from Tom Wintringham to his brother, John outlining his plans in the case of German invasion, 22 May 1940; letter to T L Horabin outlining a plan of action for setting up a Home Guard, 18 Jun 1940; material for an all party group document on setting up a Home Guard and article for Illustrated London News on the first weeks of the Osterley Park Training School, 12 Aug 1940. 1 file

Papers on formation of the Common Wealth Party including article by Tom Wintringham, 'Notes on British politics', proposing a new political party, 23 May 1941; memorandum for joint conference of 1941 Committee and Forward March, Jul 1942; newsletter outlining Common Wealth's activities following its creation and report on the Common Wealth Party, Jul 1942-Mar 1943. 4 items

Papers relating to the 1941 Committee of which Tom Wintringham was a member and which later merged with Forward March to form the Common Wealth Party. Includes leaflets explaining the purpose of the 1941 Committee; leaflet titled 'An open letter to the new war cabinet'; letters from Richard Acland, 24 May 1942 and letter to John Boynton Priestley, 13 Jun 1942, on their concerns about the future of the 1941 Committee and papers relating to the Nine Point Plan, the basis for the policy of the 1941 Committee, including first declaration of the nine point group, 2 May 1942 and draft of the expansion of point 7 and paper on the 'Attitude to the Labour Movement' of Forward March. 13 items.

Papers on the possibility of sending Tom Wintringham to set up a Home Guard in India including report by Wintringham 'Guerrilla warfare in India', 31 Mar 1942, sent to Gen Robert Lockhart of the India Office; correspondence on the subject with Lockhart, Sir Richard Stafford Cripps, Leader of the House of Commons, Indian organisations and Lt Gen Sir Ronald Forbes Adam Adjutant General to the Forces; letters of introduction of Wintringham to the Maharajahs of Jaipur and Jodhpur from the Earl of Jersey; draft letter from Wintringham to The Times on an Indian Home Guard, 7 Apr 1942; BBC broadcast by Wintringham, 'Indian talks: starting a Home Guard', 3 Jun 1942; broadcast for BBC Hindustani Service by Wintringham, 'Guerrilla warfare', 3 Jun 1942; letter from Wintringham to the American ambassador John Gilbert Winant on an Indian Home Guard, 26 May 1942 and press cuttings 'Congress in dilemma says Nehru', in the Star , 1 Jun [1942] and 'Nehru calls millions to fight', in Reynolds , 7 Jun [1942]. 1 file

Papers relating to the future of the Common Wealth Party following the Labour victory in the General Election, 1945, including statement by R D Best, 9 Aug 1945; statement by Common Wealth in the Middle East; memoranda on the future of Common Wealth by Richard Acland, Aug 1945 and Norman Clark, 8 Aug 1945; paper on the alternative possibilities for the Common Wealth Party with a questionnaire prepared for the Common Wealth Party national conference, 16 Sep 1945 and letter outlining the outcome of this conference. 13 items

Papers relating to the Common Wealth Party's policy towards Prime Minister Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill including policy on attitude to Churchill, by Richard Acland, Jul 1943; memorandum on 'coalition and Mr Churchill', by Tom Wintringham, Jul 1943; leaflet for private circulation only on 'Memorandum on Mr Churchill', Jul 1943; letter to Ronald William Gordon Mackay (Kim Mackay) from Rev James William Parkes on Churchill, 3 Jul 1943; 'The question of Winston Churchill' by Parkes and resolution of the working committee, Churchill memorandum, 18 Sep 1943. 7 items

Papers on Tom Wintringham's final articles 'Communist dilemmas' and 'Myth of the Individual', including typescript draft of 'Communist dilemmas', Jul 1949; 'Communist dilemmas' published posthumously by his widow Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham in three parts in the Picture Post, entitled 'The split in the Kremlin', 10 Dec [1949]; 'The Kremlin is divided too', 11 Mar 1950 and 'Victims of a frozen theory', 18 Mar 1950; letters in the Picture Post, 'On Wintringham and Washing', 8 Apr 1950, and 'Readers write against Wintringham', 15 Apr 1950; Soviet News, 8 Oct 1948 enclosing manuscript notes by Wintringham; letter from John MacMurray to Kitty advising against publication of 'Myth of the Individual' by Wintringham, 10 Nov 1949; and drafts of 'Myth of the Individual'. 1 file

Papers relating to Tom Wintringham's proposal to use peat to produce motor spirit, to be carried out in Shotts, Lanarkshire, including typescript proposal, Apr 1949; proposal for clearing a peat bog; paper on 'A hydro-peat scheme'; maps of peat bogs in Shotts; survey of peat in Scotland, manuscript notes and correspondence with the Scottish Reconstruction Committee. 1 file

Papers relating to the writing of Defence for Peace , an unpublished book by Tom Wintringham, including manuscript notes by Wintringham; letter from Penguin publishers, 3 Oct 1947; manuscript graphs charting the demobilisation of the British Army; letter to Wilfred Roberts, Labour MP on Richard Haldane's Army reforms, 21 Mar 1947; booklet by George Audit, 'Egypt and Labour Government'; and press cuttings on subjects relating to the Army and the War Office. 1 file

Papers relating to a libel charge threatened against Katherine 'Kitty' Wintringham by United Steel Companies Ltd for a speech she gave as the Common Wealth Party candidate in North Midlothian, 6 Jul 1945 including correspondence with solicitors; transcript of Kitty's public apology and press cuttings '£2,000,000 factory closed down - why?', Daily Mirror , 14 Jun 1945 and 'Britain a richer nation', Edinburgh Evening News , 7 Jul 1945. 1 file

Papers relating to a libel charge Tom Wintringham brought against Sir John Jarvis MP, who, following the publication of Your MP , made a speech in Parliament asserting that Wintringham had "just served six months in prison for treason," including correspondence with solicitors, Victor Gollancz, Wilfred Roberts, George Collier, Tom Driberg and Arthur John Cummings; various legal documents including the statement of claim; copy of the address of the judge to Wintringham at his sentencing for sedition in 1925 and papers relating to the settlement. 1 file

Papers on the Common Wealth Party's election policy including document 'Common Wealth and the General election' on points discussed in the national conference; resolutions for by-elections and 'resolution on popular front and general election'; leaflet for private circulation on 'Common Wealth plan for the general election', Sep 1944 and draft leaflet on 'practical policy points for the general election'. 1 file

Papers relating to Your MP , a book by Tom Wintringham, published under the pseudonym 'Tiberius Gracchus', including draft typescript article by Wintringham, 'Muck raking: they said it', 9 Jun 1944 draft manuscript article by Wintringham, 'Manners maketh MPs'; press cuttings 'Mr Emtys-Evans and yellow book' and 'Birmingham Candidate issue writs', from Birmingham Gazette , 4 Jul 1945; extract from Hansard , speech by Mr Bartle Bull, 26 May 1944 and correspondence on Your MP with Victor Gollancz (publisher of Your MP ), Arthur Wynn, Basil Liddell Hart and others. 1 file